Seeing the part about recently obtaining a $15m injunction against Sci-Hub reminded me that regardless of any thoughts about open access, publisher profiteering, etc., I can't in good conscience support pirate sites or #canihazpdf on Twitter, etc. Last year one of the "bibles" in my field (a large textbook) had a PDF version of the entire textbook freely available on a pirate site and I wasn't willing to refer people to it even though that meant the "inconvenience" of having to loan my big print copy (and eventually purchase multiple copies) and (even more inconvenient) scan pages from it because at that time there wasn't a site license option to its e-book. I couldn't in good conscience give people the convenient link to its (illegal) free online PDF.
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Wow. Really laid into them, didn't they? Good read. On top of which I was particularly impressed by their getting Harry S Truman's name correct, with no period after the "S". Posting to LinkedIn for a broader audience, since there are a number of public/special librarians there in addition to a bunch of us. Many thanks for the link, Julie!
Bill
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https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/27/profitable-business-scientific-publishing-bad-for-science
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